Starts and samples

It is Wednesday right? Monday holidays (while wonderful) really throw me off my game. Tuesday felt like Monday, so today doesn’t feel like Wednesday. My daughter’s school has a half-day for some reason, so her timeline is shifted and I can already hear my son wide awake in his bed (so napping is off as well). The end of school for each kid is drawing near as well, and then there’s trying to figure out camp and summer and it feels like there might be more time than there actually is and well, it just makes my head spin and my words ramble.
I finished Gone Girl over the weekend. I could not put it down! I read Sharp Objects last year, and enjoyed that as well. I will be looking for her other book, Dark Places, in the near future. I was able to download Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children from the library. This was a total random impulse selection when I was on the library’s e-book site making a wish list of things to read. I love that I can read while I knit, knit swatches anyway. My intention was to read a few pages over coffee while knitting on my 3rd swatch for a new sample knit, and I ended up totally sucked in and have finished 6 chapters. Very interesting. As to the knitting, this week I’ve focused on the sample knitting. The Summit Shawl is underway. I still can not completely wrap my head around the pattern, but it works and looks nice. I have not tried knitting backwards (to save time on flipping my work every 12 stitches), and I am getting the rhythm down. The swatches are for a sample for Harrisville in their Watershed yarn. My swatches are drying after a quick bath, but I think I’m on track with that. I probably won’t be showing much more of that until the pattern is released, that’s the way of it!

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